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Re: Amiga Coldfire project dead?
« on: November 17, 2010, 04:01:02 PM »
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PPC = hugely expensive hardware so no sale to people with £50/100 machines

PPC = total rewrite of everything from scratch + a driver for all ppc boards/chipsets
ARM = total rewrite of everything from scratch + a driver for all arm boards/chipsets

I really don't see the difference with x86...
 

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Re: Amiga Coldfire project dead?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2010, 04:46:28 PM »
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ARM and x86 are cheap and plentiful compared to PPC.

True. What I mean is that in free cases it's a complete rewrite... And in all cases you don't have to support all motherboards. Just like you decide to support two/three ppc boards, you may support two/three x86 or arm boards.

So yes, it's a huge work, but surely no less than PPC...
 

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Re: Amiga Coldfire project dead?
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2010, 07:41:14 AM »
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As far as Atari TOS goes you only deal with pure 68000 and nothing ese. Even 68010s will crash GEM/TOS btw.

I'm wondering how does the Falcon work then ;)